>>but by 1990 with microchannel &c. things were much more closed off. > > i thought only one company ever really made microchannel, > and even they weren't terribly in earnest in the end, > except on non-PC things like RS6000.
IBM tried to recover control over the PC market by introducing MCA, bargaining that public sentiment would swing in their favour. They could not have been more mistaken, one could easily call this the "Betamax error". As soon as the other PC manufacturers of note (HP, Intel, Wang Labs, I forget who else) released EISA (which was quickly replaced by PCI), IBM's efforts were nullified. ++L
